USB mount failure in 10.3



I've installed 10.3 on two different machines. Both show
the same problem.

Attempting to plug in a USB stick I get the following error:

hal-storage-mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

which pretty clearly means that hal (the hardware abstrcction
layer demon) saw the USB stick and refused to mount it because
SOMEWHERE this indicator is set to "no".

Does anyone else have this problem?

Does anyone know whre this indicator is set?

Yes, I've checked the reported bugs and this has been reported.
A fix in a new version of hal is given, but I can't install that
version due to missing dependencies of various kinds -- in other
words, I fall into dependency hell while trying to manually
install the new (and not yet released) hal rpm.

I also cannot mount CD's on one machine (same error). I've not
tried it on the other yet (it is at home and I'm at work.)

--
--- Paul J. Gans
.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: White screen on boot up and USB flash errors
    ... install on a Compaq Evo N400C, ... I have it on two machines. ... I can work around that easier than the USB, ... it then reports that it can't mount the ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Re: Solved! USB sticks not recognized
    ... I installed 10.3 from the LiveCD version on two machines, ... , an attempt to mount a USB ... It was mountable after the initial install. ... runlevel 3. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • RE: USB memory stick problem
    ... from a disk image that was syspreped and ghosted to all of the machines. ... no USB drive will automatically work when you plug them in. ... administrator and install the device manually. ... I made the appropriate adjustments to the driver section of the ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • USB memory stick problem
    ... from a disk image that was syspreped and ghosted to all of the machines. ... no USB drive will automatically work when you plug them in. ... administrator and install the device manually. ... I made the appropriate adjustments to the driver section of the ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: USB HDD as Bootable Drive
    ... XP by it's nature won't install on any Mass ... buy one of the new 4-Gigabyte Flash drives. ... machine has limitations with hardware (USB). ... I currently use on a regular basis, three machines, mine, one at my son's ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)